Tag: James Belfield Editorial

Frustration, disagreements and financial hardship have been Covid’s calling cards for locked-down Waiheke. But now there’s something we can all do to help our...

Scratch the surface of Waiheke and one of its first, and potentially most disturbing, traits you reveal tends to be a constant battle over...

“Epidemiological stupidity” isn’t a phrase that trips off the tongue easily – and, before the events of the past 20 months, would have had...

As kids on long drives to summer holidays, we used to count ghost trees. Singing along to Abba or the Carpenters, eye-spying or counting sequential...

It didn’t help that I’d taken the wrong road home and it certainly didn’t help that I hadn’t yet learnt to keep a small...

The survey pegs have just gone in on the section next door – that’ll be the third new home on the surrounding empty sections...

My own call came the first Thursday they started the whole jabs process down at Oneroa. “Is that James?” “Yes” “Can you make it down the village...

Favourite story of the week was told me in front of the mince shelves at Countdown. An old friend recounted how he was caring for...

Wandering across the golf course at midnight in Lake Tekapo gives you a unique opportunity to time travel.  Because, effectively, that’s what star-gazing is...

The heart woke up first. It reared indignantly at the thought that someone else was to blame. And sobbed at cancelled plans and lost...